Effects of a half a millennium winter on a deep lake - a shape of things to come?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2844-2856

  Straile, Dietmar ^a   Kerimoglu, Onur ^a   Peeters, Frank ^a   Jochimsen, Marc C ^a   Kümmerlin, Reiner ^b   Rinke, Karsten ^a   Rothhaupt, Karl Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Seenforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Daphnia; Lake Constance; Mixing; Phenology; Phytoplankton bloom; Plankton succession; Winter sequence

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LIMNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

BODENSEE;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIIDAE;

EID: 77956260359     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02158.x     Document Type: Article

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